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INTERVIEW director : Mario Monicelli: 'commedia all’italiana encompassed everything from love to death'

Mario Monicelli: 'commedia all’italiana encompassed everything from love to death'

The 93-year-old Italian director and father of the ‘commedia all’Italiana’ film genre, on the power of cinema which ‘acts like a mirror, tells a story, but doesn’t preach’.

by ilaria lacommare @ // 30/11/10

director, italy, mario monicelli, paris, film, tragödie, commedia all'italiana

'Wall and Borders': 83 directors, 70 episodes, 1 Berlin concept movie Watch the video

- Video 'Wall and Borders': 83 directors, 70 episodes, 1 Berlin concept movie

16/11/09

director, clandestine, germany, video, prison, berlin wall, history

OPINION director : 2 days in Warsaw: Solidarnosc, cult Polish documentaries and Berlusconi

2 days in Warsaw: Solidarnosc, cult Polish documentaries and Berlusconi

For two days at the end of April 2009, the Polish capital becomes the 'centre of Europe' as the EU's largest centre-right party descend on the city. Quality time spent between British, Spanish and Polish colleagues raises an understanding of what the last twenty years mean, and the gap between east and west. Opinion

by Natalia Sosin @ // 16/06/09

director, european popular party, protest, intercultural dialogue, film, communism, berlin wall

director : Yuri Khashchevatsky: 'Being Belarusian is fashionable these days'

Yuri Khashchevatsky: 'Being Belarusian is fashionable these days'

Visionary film director Yuri Khashchevatsky, 60, is a principal figure of Belarusian dissent. He criticises ineffective opposition, and talks up the new role the Internet plays in the resistance

by Prune Antoine @ // 18/05/07

director, belarus, georgia, brunch, north korea, minsk, yury khashchavatski

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IDFA 2010 - Portrait of Pirjo Honkasalo: "The more in the margin the better"

Finnish director Pirjo Honkasalo is a rebel. You can tell immediately by her fierce blue eyes and determined walk. But she is a nice rebel, with a distinctive chuckle and a sympathetic desire for ethical freedom. She has been invited to the IDFA to introduce a retrospective of her work ...

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“You will always find at least one Chinese in a casino, we just love gambling. And for what I'm seeing here, I think Estonians are quite the same!” Yuxin Zuhang is one of the important guests in this POFF Festival: with his first featured film, Teeth of Love, touchy-feely ...

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